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[109] equivalent in intent: Whar ye from? It not unfrequently happened that the next sound was the report of a pistol. People who wished to travel without such collisions, avoided the necessity of meeting any one, by making a circuit or running away on the first indication of pursuit. And why this condition of things? Because the North had consented to compromise with the deadly crime of Southern slavery; because it had been taught that this stupendous and organized iniquity could have any other right than to be crushed under the feet of Christian freemen. arrest as A horse Thief. On the afternoon of my first day at Prairie City, I was sitting reading a book at the door of the cabin, when, unexpectedly, I saw a company of the dragoons approaching. They were riding, in double file, up to where I sat; but I did not look at them again until the horse of the captain was about to tread on me. 1 knew that it was designed, in revenge for my indifference, on the captain's part; and to anger him still more, as soon as I stepped aside, instead of saluting him or looking at his men, I reopened my book and recommenced my reading. In a voice of stifled anger, he asked me if my name was Redpath? I told him that it was. “Then, sir, you are my prisoner!” he said. “Indeed!” I responded. “Why? Where is your warrant?” “I have none,” he answered angrily.
Thayer and Eldridge, 1860.
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